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A planned new trade agreement between the EU and the United States will force higher education here to go further down the route of “privatisation and commercialisation”, a conference of university lecturers has heard. Continue reading>

2) Investor Treaties in Trouble - IPS News, 12/05/14

The tide is turning against investment treaties and free trade agreements that contain the controversial investor-state dispute system, which allows foreign investors to take up cases against host governments and claim compensation of up to billions of dollars. Continue reading>

The House of Lords urged the government to push forward with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the bilateral free trade agreement between the EU and the US. They wheeled out figures which are often cited by supporters of TTIP: namely that the deal could be worth €119bn (£97bn, $163bn) a year to the EU and €95bn a year to the US. Academics, however, have questioned the logic and validity of the statistics used. Continue reading>

Growing support for far-right parties has dominated the run-up to next week's European Parliament elections. But a lesser-noticed theme is lurking: parties on both the right and left who want to scupper EU free trade talks. Continue reading>

BRUSSELS - Trade negotiators will look to complete an EU-US trade deal before the end of 2015, senior officials have agreed. But a deal will not include financial services, after the US ambassador all but ruled out discussion of harmonising financial regulation. Continue reading>